Regulus Black is Stubby Boardman????

[ghinghapuss]

No: HPFGUIDX 76580

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Brooke" <brookeshanks at m...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "barbara_mbowen" 
> <Barbara_Bowen at h...> wrote:
> > Forgive me if this has been discussed before; I read as many 
> > posts as I can, but...!
> > 
> > I noticed that Regulus Black, Sirius' kid brother and murdered 
> > DE, had a date of death "fifteen years previously" (p.112).  And 
> > Stubby Boardman "retired from public life  after being struck in 
> > the ear by a turnip...nearly fifteen years ago" (p192).   Maybe 
> > Regulus is in hiding, impersonating Stubby?  Maybe the REAL 
> > Stubby was Regulus all along?  Or maybe Stubby died from the 
> > turnip in the ear, and Regulus, on the run from Voldemort, 
> > knowing he would get no protection from the MoM, took Stubby's 
> > identity.  Why hasn't he come out of hiding since?  Well, maybe 
> > he likes being Stubby?  Or, maybe he's still scared, both of 
> > Voldy's old supporters and the  MoM (big brother Sirius being the 
> > most notorious prisoner in  Azkaban probably didn't help...)
> > 
> > Probably not true, but wouldn't it be fun if Stubby, AKA Regulus 
> > Black, turns up in Book Six?
> > 
> > Marmelade's Mom
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Regulus being Stubby Boardman is an interesting theory, but one 
that 
> did not come to my mind.  When Harry mentioned Sirius's name, it 
was 
> Luna who said to him "you mean Stubby Boardman?"  I think it might 
be 
> important to consider the source JKR used to introduce this new 
clue 
> to the story.  Why did SHE mention Stubby?  Does or did Stubby have 
> something to do with The Quibbler and/or her father?  My theory is 
> that Sirius may have been using the pseudonym Stubby Boardman (same 
> initials) in order to be secretive (and we all know that Sirius had 
> many things to be secretive about).  I think Sirius may have been 
> leading a sort of double life under that name.  The only thing i 
> don't like about my theory is that Stubby is now gone as well... I 
am 
> hoping that there was some sort of switching spell involved and it 
> was Stubby rather than Sirius that Bellatrix finished off!
> Brookeshanks :o)

Now me: Now I say this gently but firmly: Sirius is not coming back! 
Unfortunate, but a fact of life is death. :-(

We know for a fact that Sirius was in Azkaban for 13 years so he was 
definatly not Stubby during that time. But I love the idea that 
Sirius disguised himself as Stubby while he was on the run.  After 
all he had to eat and live some how.